The Goldberg Variations

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Glenn Gould

The Goldberg Variations is a keyboard composition by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, composed and published in 1741. It comprises an opening theme followed by a series of thirty variations that display Baroque counterpoint, a progression of canonic techniques at successive intervals and virtuosic keyboard figuration, and it forms part of Bach's late keyboard output while contributing to the evolution of the variation form in Western classical music.

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  1. 1.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
    1:52
  2. 2.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 1 a 1 Clav.
    0:45
  3. 3.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 2 a 1 Clav.
    0:37
  4. 4.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all' Unisono
    0:54
  5. 5.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 4 a 1 Clav.
    0:29
  6. 6.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
    0:36
  7. 7.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda
    0:34
  8. 8.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
    1:08
  9. 9.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 8 a 2 Clav.
    0:45
  10. 10.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 9 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza
    0:38
  11. 11.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 10 a 1 Clav. Fughetta
    0:42
  12. 12.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 11 a 2 Clav.
    0:54
  13. 13.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta
    0:56
  14. 14.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 13 a 2 Clav.
    2:10
  15. 15.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 14 a 2 Clav.
    0:58
  16. 16.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 15 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quinta. Andante
    2:17
  17. 17.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 16 a 1 Clav. Ouverture
    1:18
  18. 18.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 17 a 2 Clav.
    0:53
  19. 19.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 18 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Sesta
    0:46
  20. 20.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 19 a 1 Clav.
    0:42
  21. 21.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 20 a 2 Clav.
    0:48
  22. 22.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 21 Canone alla Setima
    1:42
  23. 23.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 22 a 1 Clav. Alla breve
    0:42
  24. 24.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 23 a 2 Clav.
    0:54
  25. 25.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all' Ottava
    0:57
  26. 26.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 25 a 2 Clav.
    6:29
  27. 27.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 26 a 2 Clav.
    0:52
  28. 28.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 27 a 2 Clav. Canone alla Nona
    0:49
  29. 29.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 28 a 2 Clav.
    1:10
  30. 30.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
    1:00
  31. 31.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 30 a 1 Clav. Quodlibet
    0:48
  32. 32.
    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo
    2:15
  33. 33.
    The Well-Tempered Clavier II: Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883
    3:18
  34. 34.
    The Well-Tempered Clavier II: Fugue in E major, BWV 878
    4:17

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